requests demo

requests_demo.py

import requests
from typing import Optional

def send_get_request(url, params:Optional[dict]=None) -> requests.Response:
    return requests.get(url, params=params)
def send_post_request(url, data_dict:dict) -> requests.Response:
    return requests.post(url=url, json=data_dict)

GET_API_ENDPOINT = "https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/1"
POST_API_ENDPOINT = "https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts"

### A GET request to the API ###
# 1. Send the request
resp:requests.Response = send_get_request(GET_API_ENDPOINT)
# 2. Print the response
print("GET response status code:", resp.status_code)
print("GET response data:", resp.json())
print("==================================================")

### A POST request to the API##
post_data:dict = {
    "userID": 1,
    "id": 1,
    "title": "Making a POST request",
    "body": "This is the data we created."
}
# 1. Send the request
resp = send_post_request(POST_API_ENDPOINT, post_data)
# 2. Print the response
print("POST response status code:", resp.status_code)
print("POST response data:", resp.json())